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That doesn't sound right.. You can book a yellow cab through a dispatcher. This happens at bars all the time. There is even an online service and app which cl
by bhousel 15y ago
That doesn't sound right.. You can book a yellow cab through a dispatcher. This happens at bars all the time.
There is even an online service and app which claims to do it: http://itaxinyc.com/ http://itaxinyc.com/ (competitor to you?)
- untog 15y agoI've not seen those guys before, and haven't investigated in depth but all their booking options are for private livery cab services- not yellow cabs. I'm not sure about booking from bars, etc., but I've certainly not seen it. There's nothing wrong with those services- indeed, as I mention in the article, it's likely the route my app will go down. But there are a lot of yellow cabs, and not being able to include them is a real shame.
- bhousel 15y agoAh, you are right.. "For-Hire vehicles" are different from "medallion taxis". I've spent the past hour reading the rules on the T&LC site. (This stuff kinda interests me because I'm a consultant for the NYC Department of Law). T&LC even has specific publications regarding smartphone apps like what you are developing. NYC has really gone to great lengths to protect the existing medallion system - no surprise given the amount of money that it brings in.
- untog 15y agoNYC has really gone to great lengths to protect the existing medallion system - no surprise given the amount of money that it brings in. I think that's probably the core of it, yes. At the end of the day, it isn't a problem for me to use for-hire taxi services- it's just a shame that I can't use yellow cabs. I didn't really intend for this post to be a complaint about government regulation- it exists everywhere, and often for good reason- but more about the fact that the average startup has no time to lobby government for change.